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Week 1: Introduction to the Course: The University
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Jefferson, Thomas.
Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia
(1818)
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The Land Grant Tradition. Adapted from National Association of State
Universities and Land-Grant Colleges,1995
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Klein, Arthur J. "Education," American Journal of Sociology,
Vol. 35, No. 6. (May, 1930), pp. 1063-1071.
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Judd, Charles H. "Education," American Journal of Sociology,
Vol. 36, No. 6. (May, 1931), pp. 1045-1053.
Vol. 37, No. 6. (May, 1932), pp. 983-989.
Vol. 38, No. 6. (May, 1933), pp. 922-930.
Vol. 39, No. 6. (May, 1934), pp. 800-808.
Vol. 47, No. 6. (May, 1942), pp. 876-887.
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Hutchins, Robert M. "Ideals in Education,"
American Journal of Sociology,
Vol. 43, No. 1. (Jul., 1937), pp. 1-15.
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Lombardi, et al. "Quality Engines: The Competitive Context for Research
Universities," in The Top American Research Universities (Gainesville:
TheCenter, University of Florida, 2001)
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Nichols, John P.
"What Would Dr. Newman Say Today? (The Idea of a ... College?)"
JGE: The Journal of General Education (53:3-4 2004).
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Grubb, W. Norton and Marvin Lazerson.
"Vocationalism in Higher Education:
The Triumph of the Education Gospel,"
The Journal of Higher Education, 76:1 (2005)
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Scott, John C.
"The Mission of the University:
Medieval to Postmodern Transformations,"
The Journal of Higher Education (77:1, 2006).
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Thelin, John R. "Expectations and Reality in American Higher Education,"
NEA Higher Education Journal, Fall 2007.
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Perspectives on the Progression of Learning in Higher
Education:
An Interview with John Lombardi. IMS, 2008.
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Adelman, Clifford. "The Bologna Club: What
U.S. Higher Education Can Learn from a Decade of European Reconstruction,"
Institute for Higher Education Policy, (May 2008)
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Faust, Drew Gilpin. "The University's Crisis of Purpose", The New York Times,
September 6, 2009.
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Carnevale, Anthony P., Nicole Smith, and Jeff Strohl.
Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements through 2018,
Center on Education and the Workforce, Georgetown University, 2010.
Mission Statements
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Meacham, Jack. "What's the Use of a Mission Statement?"
AcademeONLINE, 2008
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Berger, James. "A Mission Counterstatement:
Mission Statements Demand Compromises We Shouldn't Have to Make,"
AAUP Academe Online, 2008.
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Douglas, Lawrence and Alexander George
"Mission Statement Impossible.
Is It Satire? You Decide,"
AAUP Academe Online, 2008.
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Stanford University: The Founding Grant with
Amendments, Legislation,
and Court Decrees (1885-1903, published by Stanford 1987).
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Mission of Amherst College (founded 1821, mission from 2010).
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University of Michigan Current Mission and Vision Statement.
Week 2: The University and Its Critics
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Adelman, Clifford. "War and Peace among the Words: Rhetoric,
Style, and Propaganda in Response to National Reports,"
Journal of Higher Education, (58:4, 1987).
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Lombardi,
"Waging War: The Arts and Sciences, the University, and the
People," National Meeting of Arts and Sciences Deans, Tampa
(November 12, 1992).
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Bloland, Harland G. "The End(s) of Academic Labor," a review essay of Sheila
Slaughter and Larry L. Leslie. Academic Capitalism. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1997, and James S. Fairweather.
Faculty Work and Public Trust.
Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1996.
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Lombardi, "Free Markets and Competition--Taking Public
Universities into the 21st
Century," Impact: The Quarterly Magazine of Florida Policy
and Culture (3:1, 1997).
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Lombardi, "Learning to Count in Higher Education",
The Washington
Post, 1/8/97.
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Engell, James and Anthony Dangerfield. "The
Market-Model University: Humanities in the Age of Money,"
Harvard Magazine, 1998.
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Chaney, Michael Alexander. "An Academic Exorcism," A
review of: Cary Nelson and Stephen Watt, Academic Keywords: A
Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education. New York and London:
Routledge, 1999, in PMC (10:1, 1999).
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Barzun, Jacques. "Trim the College?--A Utopia!"
The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 22, 2001.
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Levine, Arthur and Jeffrey C. Sun.
Barriers to Distance Education.
American Council on Education, EDUCAUSE, 2003.
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Ayers, Edward L. and Charles M. Grisham.
"Why IT Has Not Paid Off As We Hoped
(Yet)," Educause Review (38:6, 2004).
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Greenberg, Milton. "A University is not a Business
(and Other Fantasies),"
Educause Review (39:2, 2004).
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McDonough, Patricia M.
The School-to-College Transition: Challenges
and Prospects (ACE 2004).
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Hill, Kelly. Reading At
Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America, National
Endowment for the Arts, Research Division Report #46, June 2004.
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Warren, Rosanna, ed. "Members of the
ALSC respond variously to Reading at Risk:
A Survey of Literary Reading in
America," Forum: A
Publication of the Association of Literary
Scholars and Critics, (2, 2005).
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Delbanco, Andrew. "Colleges: An
Endangered Species?" New York Review
of Books, (52:4, 2005).
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Katz, Stanley N. "Liberal
Education on the Ropes," Chronicle of
Higher Education, April 1, 2005.
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Correcting
Course: How We Can Restore the Ideals of Public Higher Education in a
Market-Driven Era. The Futures
Project: Policy for Higher Education in a Changing World, 2005.
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Desrochers, Donna M. Cracks in the
Education Pipeline: A Business Leader's Guide to
igher Education Reform. Committee for
Economic Development (CED) (2005).
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Hersh, Richard H. "College 2005:
What Does College Teach? It's time to put an end to "faith-based" acceptance of
higher education's quality," Atlantic
Monthly, November 2005.
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Douthat, Ross. "The Truth about Harvard,"
The Atlantic Monthly (February 2005)
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Bloland, Harland G. "Whatever
Happened to Postmodernism in Higher Education?:
No Requiem in the New Millennium,"
The Journal of
Higher Education, (76:2, 2005).
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Carey, Kevin. "College Rankings Reformed:
The Case for a
New Order in Higher Education," Education Sector Reports, 2006.
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Paying Double: Inadequate High Schools and
Community College Remediation,
Alliance for Excellent Education, 2006.
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Heller, Donald E. "How Harvard Foils Its Own Good Intentions,"
Chronicle of Higher Education, December 17, 2007
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College Learning for the New Global Century, American Association of
College and Universities, 2007.
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America's Perfect Storm:
Three Forces Changing Our Nation's Future, Educational Testing
Service, 2007.
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Riley, Naomi Schaefer.
The Myth of the College as a Democracy,
Chronicle of Higher Education, February 9, 2007.
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Seaton, James. "Defending the Humanities,"
The Good Society (17:2, 2008).
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Culbert, Samuel A.
"Get Rid of the Performance Review!
It Destroys Morale, Kills Teamwork and Hurts the Bottom Line. And That's
Just for Starters," Wall Street
Journal, October 20, 2008.
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Cohen, Patricia.
"In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their
Worth," New York Times (2/25/2009).
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Killgore, Leslie, "Merit and Competition in Selective College Admissions,"
The Review of Higher Education (32:4, 2009).
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Taylor, Mark C. "Academic Bankruptcy,"
The New York Times, August 15, 2010.
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Bowley, Graham. "The Academic-Industrial Complex,"
The New York Times, August 1, 2010.
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Massy, William F. "Academic Values in the Marketplace,"
Higher Education Management and Policy, (21:3, 2009).
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Hacker, Andrew and Claudia Dreifus. "Administrative Glut,"
The New York Times, July 25, 2010.
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Surber, Jere P.
"Well, Naturally We're Liberal,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education,
February 7, 2010.
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Shea, Christopher.
"The End of Tenure?"
The New York Times,
September 5, 2010.
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Bankston, Carl L., III.
"The Mass Production of Credentials. Subsidies and the Rise of the Higher
Education Industry,"
The Independent Review (15:3, 2011).
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Taylor, Mark C. "College Crackup and the Online Future,"
Bloomberg May 22, 2012.
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Taylor, Mark C. "Is College's Stone Age About to End?"
Bloomberg May 22, 2012.
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Taylor, Mark C. "How Competition Is Killing Higher Education,"
Bloomberg May 22, 2012.
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"Deconstructing Academe: The Birth of Critical University Studies,"
The Chronicle, February 20, 2012.
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Perez-Pena, Richard. "At CUNY, Stricter Admissions Bring Ethnic Shift,"
The New York Times May 23, 2012.
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Samuelson, Robert J. "It's Time To Drop the College-for-All Crusade,"
The Washington Post May 28, 2012.
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Carlson, Scott and Goldie Blumenstyk. "For Whom Is College Being Reinvented?
'Disruptions' Have the Buzz but May Put Higher Education Out of Reach for Those
Students Likely to Benefit the Most,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education December 17, 2012.
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Bartlett, Thomas and Paula Wasley.
"Just say 'A': Grade Inflation Undergoes Reality Check,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education September 5, 2008.
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Klugman, Joshua.
"How Resource Inequalities Among High Schools
Reproduce Class Advantages in College Destinations,"
Research in Higher Education July 7, 2011.
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Basu, Kaustuv.
"Rethinking the Humanities Ph.D.,"
Inside Higher Ed, May 16, 2012.
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Asen, R. Scott.
"Is Private School Not Expensive Enough?"
The New York Times August 23, 2012.
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Saul, Stephanie.
"Public Money Finds Back Door to Private Schools,"
The New York Times May 21, 2012.
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Supiano, Beckie.
"College and Class: 2 Researchers Study Inequality, Starting with One Freshman Floor,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education April 1, 2013.
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Grasgreen, Allie.
"Colleges with Party Emphasis Maintain Economic, Social Inequality, New Research Suggests,"
Inside Higher Ed April 1, 2013.
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The White House, Office of the Press Secretary.
"FACT SHEET on the President’s Plan to Make College More Affordable: A Better Bargain for the Middle Class,"
August 22, 2013.
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Carnevale, Anthony P. and Jeff Strohl.
Separate and Unequal: How Higher Education Reinforces the Intergenerational Reproduction of White Racial Privilege, Washington, DC: Georgetown University, July 2013.
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Wood, Peter and Michael Toscano.
"What Does Bowdoin Teach? How a Contemporary Liberal Arts College Shapes Students,"
National Association of Scholars' Report, April 3, 2013.
Week 3: Types and Characteristics of
Universities
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Eckel, Peter D., and Jacqueline E. King.
Overview of Higher Education in the United States: Diversity, Access, and the
Role of the Marketplace (2004).
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Boswell, Katherine and Cynthia D. Wilson, eds., Keeping America's Promise: A Report on
the Future of the Community College (Education Commission of the States, League
for Innovation in the Community College, 2004).
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Grubb, W. Norton and Marvin Lazerson. "Vocationalism in Higher Education:
The Triumph of the Education Gospel," Journal of Higher Education (76:1, 2005).
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Bozick, Robert et al., "Framing the Future:
Revisiting the Place of Educational
Expectations in Status Attainment,"
Social Forces (88:5, 2010).
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Morphew, Christopher C. "Conceptualizing Change in the Institutional
Diversity of U.S. Colleges
and Universities,"
The Journal of Higher Education (80:3, 2009).
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Curs,Bradley R. and Larry D. Singell, Jr.
"Aim High or Go Low? Pricing Strategies
and Enrollment Effects When the Net Price
Elasticity Varies with Need and Ability,"
The Journal of Higher Education (81:4, 2010).
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Bonaccorsi, Andrea and Cinzia Daraio.
"Characterizing the European University System:
A Preliminary Classification Using
Census Microdata,"
Science and Public Policy, (36:10, 2009)
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The Editors.
"Failing the Grade:
The Craze for Ranking Humanities Journals,"
Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History (10:1, 2009).
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Fehrman, Craig T.
"Prepreprofessionalism: Rankings, Rewards, and the Graduate
Admissions Process,"
College Literature (36:3, 2009).
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Morphew, Christopher C. "Conceptualizing Change in the Institutional
Diversity of U.S. Colleges and Universities,"
The Journal of Higher Education, (80:3 2009).
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Chait, Richard P. and Zachary First. "Bullish on Private
Colleges: On the Enduring Strengths of INstitutions of
Higher Education," Harvard Magazine, Novermber-December 2011.
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American Association Community Colleges.
Reclaiming the American Dream: Community Colleges and the Nation's Future:
A report from the 21st-Century Commission on the Future of Community Colleges,
Washington, DC: 2012.
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Fain, Paul.
"Michigan Lets Community Colleges Issue Four-Year Degrees, amid Controversy,"
Inside Higher Ed January 22, 2013.
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Jacob, Brian, Brian McCall, Kevin M. Stange.
"College as Country Club: Do Colleges Cater to Students' Preferences for Consumption?"
National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, MA, January 2012, Working Paper 18745).
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Carey, Kevin.
"The Brave New World of College Branding,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education March 25, 2013.
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Bahr, Peter Riley.
"Classifying Community Colleges Based on Students' Patterns of Use,"
Context for Success HCM Stragegies-Gates Foundation, 2012.
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Prescott, Brian T. and Peace Bransberger.
"Knocking at the College Door: Projections of High School Graduates," 8th ed., Boulder, CO:
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2012.
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Hinrichs, Peter.
"An Empirical Analysis of Racial Segration in Higher Education,"
Draft, September 20, 2012.
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Kiley, Kevin.
"Denver and Phoenix Could Be the Last New Hotspots for College Recruiting: Then What?"
Inside Higher Ed May 25, 2012.
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Hoxby, Caroline M., and Christopher Avery.
"The Missing 'One-Offs': The Hidden Supply of High-Achieving, Low Income Students,"
NBER Working Paper Series No. 18586, December 2012.
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Hoxby, Caroline and Sarah Turner.
"Expanding College Opportunities for High-Achieving, Low Income Students,"
SIEPR Discussion Paper No. 12-014. Stanford, CA: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research,
2012.
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Mangan, Katherine.
"MOOC Mania: It's Raising Big Questions about the Future of Higher Education,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education October 1, 2012.
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Pappano, Laura.
"The Year of the MOOC,"
The New York Times November 2, 2012.
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Anderson, Nick.
"Elite Education for the Masses,"
The Washington Post November 3, 2012.
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Stripling, Jack.
"Behind Rollins College Chief's Battle, a Broader Liberal-Arts Debate,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education March 28, 2013.
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Fischer, Karin.
"American Colleges' Missteps Raise Questions About Overseas Partnerships,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education February 19, 2012.
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Fry, Richard and Paul Taylor.
"High School Dropout Rate at Record Low. Hispanic High School Graduates Pass Whites in Rate of College Enrollment,"
Pew Research Center, May 9, 2013.
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Walsh, Taylor (in conjunction with Ithaka S+R).
Unlocking the Gates: How and Why Leading Universities are Opening
Up Access to their Courses,
Princeton University Press, 2011.
University Characteristics
Associations
Ranking of Universities
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Rothblatt, Sheldon. "Global Branding
and the Celebrity University,"
Liberal Education (2008).
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Hongcai, Wang.
"University Rankings:
Status Quo, Dilemmas, and Prospects,"
Chinese Education and Society (2:1, 2009).
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Ying, Yu and Zhang Jingao.
"An Empirical Study on Credibility of
China's University Rankings:
A Case Study of Three Rankings,"
Chinese Education and Society (42:1, 2009).
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West, Peter W.A.
"A Faustian Bargain? Institutional Responses
to National and International Rankings,"
Higher Education Management and Policy (21:1, 2009).
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"Leagues Apart,"
Economist 3/27/2010.
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Tappera,Ted and Ourania Filippakou.
"The World-Class League Tables and the Sustaining of International
Reputations in Higher Education,"
Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management
(31:1, 2009).
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Emens, Stephanie C.
"The Methodology and Manipulation of
the U.S. News Law School Rankings,"
The Journal of the Legal Profession (34:197, 2009).
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Marginson, Simon.
"Open Source Knowledge
and University Rankings,"
Thesis Eleven, (96, 2009).
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The Editors.
"Failing the Grade:
The Craze for Ranking Humanities Journals,"
Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History (10:1, 2009).
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Fehrman, Craig T.
"Prepreprofessionalism: Rankings, Rewards, and the Graduate
Admissions Process,"
College Literature (36:3, 2009).
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Guttenplan, D.D.
"Questionable Science Behind Academic Rankings,"
The New York Times
(November 15, 2010).
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Hazelkorn, Ellen. "Rankings and the Battle
for World-Class Excellence: Institutional
Strategies and Policy Choices,"
Higher Education Management and Policy
(21:1, 2009).
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Tijssen, Robert J. W. , Thed N van Leeuwen, and Erik van Wijk.
"Benchmarking University-Industry Research
Cooperation Worldwide:
Performance Measurements and Indicators
Based on Co-Authorship Data for the World's
Largest Universities,"
Research Evaluation, (18:1, 2009).
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Dillon, Erin.
"America'S Best Master's Universities and Baccalaureat Colleges,"
Washington Monthly (2010).
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Bastedo, Michael N. and
Nicholas A. Bowman.
"U.S. News and World Report College Rankings:
Modeling Institutional Effects on
Organizational Reputation,"
American Journal of Education (116, 2010).
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Halffman, Willem and Loet Leydesdorff.
"Is Inequality Among Universities Increasing? Gini
Coefficients and the Elusive Rise of Elite Universities,"
Minerva (48, 2010).
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Sehgal, Ashwini R. "The Role of Reputation in U.S. News and
World Report's Rankings of the
Top 50 American Hospitals,"
Annals of Internal Medicine (152:8, 2010).
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De La Baume, Maia.
"French University Rankings Draw Praise and Criticism,"
The New York Times,
November 15, 2010.
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"The Value Question:
Great Schools, Great Prices,"
US News, 2010.
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Morse, Robert J. and Samuel Flanigan. "Ranking the Schools.
How We Measure Success.
Where Schools Stand Is Determined by Performance on
Up To 16 Indicators of Excellence,"
US News and World Report (September 2010).
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Segal, David.
"Is Law School a Losing Game?" New York Times, January 8, 2011.
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Oliver, Miguel de Oliver and Felecia M. Briscoe.
"US Higher Education in a Budgetary Vortex, 1992-2007:
Tracing the Positioning of Academe in the Context
of Growing Inequality,"
Higher Education (62, 2011).
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Bowman, Nicholas A.and Michael N. Bastedo.
"Anchoring Effects in World University Rankings: Exploring
Biases in Reputation Scores,"
Higher Education (61, 2011).
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Stolz, Ingo, Darwin D. Hendel, and Aaron S. Horn.
"Ranking of Rankings: Benchmarking Twenty-five Higher
Education Ranking Systems in Europe,"
Higher Education (60, 2010).
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"In Pursuit of Number ONE,"
The Top American Research Universities, 2010.
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Bastedo, Michael N. and Nicholas A. Bowman.
"College Rankings as an Interorganizational Dependency: Establishing the Foundation
for Strategic and Institutional Accounts,"
Research in Higher Education (52, 2011).
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Global Research Benchmarking System, 11/23/2011.
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Jarvey, Paul and Alex Usher.
Measuring Academic Research in Canada: Field-Normalized Univeristy Rankings 2012.
Toronto: Higher Education Strategy Associates, 2012.
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Naik, Gautam.
"Journals' Ranking System Roils Research,"
Wall Street Journal August 24, 2012.
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Fuller, Andrea.
"In Selecting Peers for Comparison's Sake, Colleges Look Upward,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education September 10, 2012.
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Rauhvargers, Andrejs.
Global University Rankings and their Impact: Report II
European University Association, 2013.
Week 4: Teaching
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Astin, Alexander W. "The Changing American College Student:
Thirty-Year Trends,
1966-1996," The Review of Higher Education.
(21, 1998).[Tables and figures are included in the PDF.]
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Bess, James L. "Teaching Well: Do You Have to Be
Schizophrenic?" The Review of Higher Education (22:1, 1998).
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Kuh, George D. "How Are We Doing? Tracking the
Quality of the Undergraduate Experience, 1960s to the Present,"
The Review of Higher Education (22:2. 1999).[Note the tables are included
in the PDF file, the links may require a username/passwords off campus]
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Kuh, George D. and Shouping Hu. "Learning Productivity at
Research Universities," The Journal of
Higher Education (77:1, 2001).
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Crisis at the Core:
Preparing All Students for College and Work (Iowa City: ACT, 2004).
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Rothstein, Jesse M., "College Performance Predictions and the SAT,"
Journal of Econometrics (121:1-2, 2004 Higher education (Annals issue)).
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Adelman, Clifford. Principal Indicators of Student
Academic Histories in Postsecondary Education, 1972-2000 (U.S. Department of
Education, Institute of Education Sciences, 2004).
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Muraskin, Lana and John Lee, et al. Raising the Graduation Rates
of Low-Income College Students.
The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunty in Higher Education, 2004.
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Tinto, Vincent. "Student Retention and Graduation: Facing the Truth, Living with the Consequences,"
Pell Occasionial Paper 1, 2004.
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Dynarski, Susan. Building the
Stock of College-Educated Labor, John F. Kennedy
School of Government: Faculty Research Working Papers, Harvard
University, 2005.
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Levine, Arthur. "Educating School Teachers,"
The Education Schools Project, 2006.
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College Learning for the New Global Century,
American Association of Colleges
and Universities, 2007
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Renewing
the Covenant:
Learning, Discovery, and
Engagement in a New Age
and Different World, Kellogg
Commission on the Future of State and Land-Grant
Universities.
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Sanders-Dewey, Neva E. J.
and Stephanie A. Zaleski.
"The Utility of a College Major:
Do Students of Psychology Learn
Discipline-Specific Knowledge?"
JGE: The Journal of General Education (58:1, 2009).
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Bartlett, Thomas.
"Cheating Goes Global as Essay Mills Multiply
From Virginia to Manila: On the Trail of Papers for Cash,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 20, 2009.
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Bourke, Brian,
Nathaniel J. Bray, and
C. Christopher Horton.
"Approaches to the Core Curriculum:
An Exploratory Analysis of Top Liberal
Arts and Doctoral-Granting Institutions,"
The Journal of General Education (58:4, 2009).
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Brint, Steven,
Kristopher Proctor,
Scott Patrick Murphy, and
Lori Turk-Bicakci.
"General Education Models: Continuity and Change in the U.S.
Undergraduate Curriculum, 1975-2000,"
The Journal of Higher Education (80:6, 2009).
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Hornak,Anne M., Patricia L. Farrell, and Natalie J. Jackson.
"Making It (or Not) on a Dime in College: Implications for Practice,"
Journal of College Student Development (51:5, 2010).
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Brock, Thomas.
"Young Adults and Higher Education:
Barriers and Breakthroughs to Success,"
The Future of Children (20:1, 2010).
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White, Justin,
Stefinee Pinnegar, and
Pat Esplin.
'When Learning and Change Collide: Examining Student Claims
to Have "Learned Nothing",'
The Journal of General Education, (59:2, 2010).
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Webber, Douglas A. and Ronald G. Ehrenberg.
"Do Expenditures Other than Instructional Expenditures Affect
Graduation and Persistence Rates in American Higher Education?"
Economics of Education Review (29, 2010).
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Trostel, Philip A.
"The Fiscal Impacts of College Attainment,"
Research in Higher Education (51, 2010).
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Chen, Rong and Edward P. St. John.
"State Financial Policies and College Student Persistence: A National Study,"
The Journal of Higher Education (82:5, 2011).
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Berrett, Dan.
"College Too Easy? UCLA Makes It Tougher,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education July 30, 2012.
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Babcock, Philip and Mindy Marks.
"Leisure College, USA: The Decline in Student Study Time,"
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research 7:August 2010.
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"Not Coming to America: Why the U.S. Is Falling Behind in the Global Race for Talent,"
The Partnership for a New American Economy and
The Partnership for New York City May 2012.
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DeParle, Jason.
"For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall,"
The New York Times December 22. 2012.
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Fain, Paul.
"Prior Learning Assessment Catches on, Quietly,"
Inside Higher Ed May 7, 2012.
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Hieronymi, Pamela.
"Don't Confuse Technology with College Teaching,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education August 13, 2012.
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Grasgreen, Allie.
"UNC Scandal Report Clears Athletics, Faculty; No-show Classes Date Back
Further than Reported,"
Inside Higher Ed December 21, 2012.
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Fain, Paul.
"Competency-based Education May Get a Boost,"
Inside Higher Ed October 1, 2012.
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Gowen, Annie.
"George Washington University Fights its Rich Kid Reputation,"
The Washington Post April 11, 2013.
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Heller, Nathan.
"LapTop U: Has the Future of College Moved Online?"
The New Yorker May 20, 2013.
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Figlio, David N., Morton O. Schapiro, and Kevin B. Soter.
"Are Tenure Track Professors Better Teachers?"
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 19406,
Cambridge, MA 2013.
The Curriculum
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Lombardi. So, What's Your Major?
(1987 Baccalaureate Address, Indiana University Bloomington).
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Conrad, Clifton F. and Katherine M. Duren, "Review
Essay: On Culture, Canons, and College Curriculum,"
The Review of Higher Education (21:1, 1997).
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Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and
Technology.
Committee on Undergraduate Science Education,
National Research Council. Washington, D.C.: National Academy
Press, 1999.
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National Academy Press Books on line.
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Kagan, Donald. "As Goes Harvard . . .,"
Commentary, September 2006.
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Boning, Kenneth. "Coherence in General Education: A Historical Look,"
JGE: The Journal of General Education (56:1, 2007).
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Scott Jaschik. "Das Ende for German at USC."
Inside Higher Ed, April 11, 2008.
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Krein, Mark and Tom Weir. "If You Build It, They Will Come:
Developing a Sports Media Major," Journal of Sports Media, (3:1, 2008).
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Brint, Steven G., Lori Turk-Bicakci, Kristopher Proctor,
and Scott Patrick Murphy. "Expanding the Social Frame of
Knowledge: Interdisciplinary, Degree-Granting Fields in
American Colleges and Universities, 1975-2000,"
The Review of Higher Education (32:2 2009).
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Darrell B. Warner and
Katie Koeppel'
"General Education Requirements:
A Comparative Analysis,"
JGE: The Journal of General Education (58:4, 2009).
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Brint, Steven Brint, Kristopher Proctor, Robert A. Hanneman,
Kerry Mulligan, Matthew B. Rotondi, and Scott P. Murphy.
"Who Are the Early Adopters of New Academic Fields?
Comparing Four Perspectives on the Institutionalization
of Degree Granting Programs in US Four-year Colleges
and Universities, 1970-2005,"
Higher Education (61, 2011).
College and University Examples
Distance Education
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Carnevale, Dan. "2 Models for
Collaboration in Distance Education," The Chronicle of Higher
Education, May 19, 2000.
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Blumenstyk, Goldie. "Temple U. Shuts Down For-Profit Distance-Education Company,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 20, 2001
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Carlson, Scott and Dan Carnevale. "Debating the Demise of NYUonline,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 14, 2001
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Carlson, Scott.
"After Losing Millions, Columbia U. Will Close Its Online-Learning Venture,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 7, 2003.
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Levine, Arthur and Jeffrey C. Sun. Barriers to Distance Education (American
Council on Education, EDUCAUSE, 2003)
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Kvavik, Robert B. and
Judith B. Caruso. ECAR Study of
Information Technology, 2005: Convenience, Connection,
Control, and Learning, Educause Center
for Applied Research, Educause, 2005.
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Abel, Rob. Innovation, Adoption, and Learning Impact: Creating the
Future of IT, Educause, 2007.
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Lewin, Tamar. "Global Classrooms.
In Oil-Rich Mideast, Shades of the Ivy League,"
New York Times, February 11, 2008.
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Sloan-C, A consortium of institutions and organizations committed to quality
online education.
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IMS Global Learning Consortium.
Benefit of College Education
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Day, Jennifer Cheeseman and Eric C. Newburger,
"The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-
Life Earnings," in Current Population Reports,
Washington: US Census Bureau, 2002.
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Arcidiacono, Peter, "Ability sorting and the returns to college major,"
Journal of Econometrics (121:1-2, 2004 Higher education (Annals issue)).
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Kahlenberg,Richard D.
"Elite Colleges, or Colleges for the Elite?"
The New York Times, September 30, 2010.
-
Trostel, Philip A.
"The Fiscal Impacts of College Attainment,"
Research Higher Education (51, 2010).
-
Liu, Xiangmin, Scott Thomas, and Liang Zhang.
"College Quality, Earnings, and Job Satisfaction:
Evidence from Recent College Graduates,"
Journal of Labor Research (31, 2010).
Week 5: Research
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Dewey, John. "Chapter Twenty-one. Physical and
Social Studies: Naturalism and Humanism," in Democracy and
Education. 1916.
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Bush, Vannevar.
"As We May Think," The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945.
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Weisbuch, Robert. The Responsive
Ph.D. Innovations in U.S. Doctoral Education, The Woodrow
Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (2005).
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Ehrenberg, Ronald G., et al.
"Inside the Black Box of Doctoral Education: What Program Characteristics
Influence Doctoral Students' Attrition and Graduation Probabilities," Cornell Higher
Education Research Institute (CHERI), 2005.
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Cross, John. Diversity and
the Ph.D.: A Review of Efforts to Broaden Race and Ethnicity in U.S. Doctoral
Education. Woodrow Wilson
National Fellowship Foundation, 2005.
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Wasley, Paula.
"The Plagiarism Hunter. When One Graduate Student Went to the Library,
He Found Copycats--Lots Of Them,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 11, 2006.
-
MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion, 2006.
-
Lombardi. "Research Competition and the MLA",
Inside HigherEd, January 11, 2007.
-
Levine, Arthur.
Educating Researchers, Education Schools Project, 2007
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Lombardi,
John V., Elizabeth D. Capaldi, et al. Rankings, Competition, and the Evolving
American University, The Center, 2007.
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Andras, Peter.
"Research: Metrics, Quality, and Management Implications,"
Research Evaluation (20:2, 2011).
-
Committee on Research Universities.
Research Universities and the Future of America: Ten Breakthrough Actions
Vital to Our Nation's Prosperity and Security National Research Council,
National Academies Press, 2012.
-
Research Universities Futures Commission.
The Current Health and Future Well-Being of the American Research University,
June 2012.
-
Basken, Paul.
"Researchers and Scientific Groups Make New Push Against Impact Factors,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education May 16, 2013.
Science and Engineering
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Cole, Stephen
and Jonathan R. Cole. "Scientific Output and Recognition: A Study
in the Operation of the Reward System in Science," American
Sociological Review, (32:3 (1967).
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Science and Engineering
Research and Education in the 21st Century: A National Science
Board Policy Symposium. Arlington, Va: NSF, National
Science Board, 1996 (multiple articles).
-
Science and
Engineering Research in a Changing World. National Academy of
Sciences, 1997.
-
Brainard, Jeffrey. "Elitism, Excellence, or Both at the
National Academy of
Sciences?," The Chronicle of Higher Education,
May 11, 2001.
-
Anderson, Melissa S. "The
Complex Relations between the Academy and Industry: Views from the Literature,"
The Journal of Higher Education (72:2, 2001).
-
Johnson, George.
"Years of Research Yield Nothing, and That's Good News for Physicists,"
The New York Times, February 5, 2002.
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Ahlen, John W. and Mark Diggs. The Keys to Growth in the New Economy: Investing
in Discovery, Engineering, and Entrepreneurship. Little Rock, Arkansas: Capital Resource
Corporation, Arkansas Capital Corporation Group, 2003.
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Rising Above The
Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future.
National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public
Policy, 2006.
-
Carlson, Toby N.
"Current Funding Practices in Academic Science
Stifle Creativity,"
Dupont Summit 2008 (Review of Policy Research 2009).
-
Science and Engineering Indicators, 2010, (8 Chapters).
-
AUTM: U.S. Licensing Activity Survey.
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Gardner, Susan K. "Conceptualizing Success in
Doctoral Education: Perspectives of Faculty
in Seven Disciplines," The Review of Higher Education,
(32:3, 2009).
-
Himanen, Laura, Otto Auranen, Hanna-Mari Puuska,
and Mika Nieminen.
"Influence of Research Funding and Science Policy
on University Research Performance:
A Comparison of Five Countries,"
Science and Public Policy, (36:6, 2009).
-
Gurmu, Shiferaw, Grant C. Black And Paula E. Stephan.
"The Knowledge Production Function for University
Patenting,"
Economic Inquiry
(48:1, 2010).
-
Ali, Mir M., Partha Bhattacharyya, and Anthony J. Olejniczak.
"The Effects of Scholarly Productivity and Institutional Characteristics
on the Distribution of Federal Research Grants,"
The Journal of Higher Education 81:2 (2010).
-
Whoriskey, Peter.
"As Drug Industry's Influence over Research Grows, So Does the Potential for Bias,"
The Washington Post November 24, 2012.
-
Basken, Paul.
"NIH Courts Younger Researchers, Even as It Debates How Far to Go,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education March 25, 2012.
Publication
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Monastersky, Richard.
"Hughes Institute's Deal With Elsevier Will Open Up
Access to Its Researchers' Work", Chronicle of Higher Education, March 9, 2007.
-
Association of American University Presses, AAUP Statement on Open Access,
2007.
-
International scientific, technical and medical (STM) publishing community,
Brussels Declaration on STM Publishing, 2007.
-
Greco, Albert N. and Robert M. Wharton.
"The Market Demand for
University Press Books, 2008-15,"
Journal of Scholarly Publishing (October 2010).
-
Fischman, Josh.
"Fake Peer Reviews, the Latest Form of Scientific Fraud, Fool Journals,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education September 30, 2012.
-
Weir, Rob.
"Essay Argues that Aaron Swartz Was Wrong,"
Inside Higher Ed January 22, 2013.
-
Wilson, Robin.
"Gender Gap: Women Cluster in Certain Fields, According to a Study of Millions
of Journal Articles, while Men Get More Credit,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education October 22, 2012.
-
Kolowich, Steve.
"With Hathi Trust Ruling, Universities' 'fair use' Winning Streak,"
Inside Higher Ed October 12, 2012.
-
Zimmer, Carl.
"A Sharp Rise in Retractions Prompts Calls for Reform,"
The New York Times April 16, 2012.
-
Kolata, Gina.
"Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too,"
New York Times April 7, 2013. [fake journals]
Humanities
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Donoghue, Denis, Lynn
Hunt, Lucius Outlaw, Judith Shapiro, and Robert Weisbuch. The
Humanist on Campus: Continuity and Change. American Council of
Learned Societies, Occasional Paper No. 44, 1998.
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Bender, Thomas,
Stanley Chodorow, and Pauline Yu. The Transformation of
Humanistic Studies in the Twenty-first Century: Opportunities and
Perils, Washington: American Council of Learned Societies,
Occasional Paper No. 40 (n.d. accessed 10/02).
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Gumport, Patricia J. and Stuart K. Snydman,
"The Formal Organization of Knowledge:
An Analysis of Academic Structure," The Journal of Higher
Education, (73:3, 2002).
-
Modern Language Association Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion, 2006
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Jaschik, Scott. "Revising and Defending the Foreign Language Major,"
Inside Higher Ed, December 29, 2008
-
Cohen, Sande.
"Publication, Knowledge, Merit On Some Politics of Editing,"
Cultural Critique, (75, 2010).
-
Ali, Mir M.,
Partha Bhattacharyya, and
Anthony J. Olejniczak.
"The Effects of Scholarly Productivity
and Institutional Characteristics on the
Distribution of Federal Research Grants,"
The Journal of Higher Education, (81:2, 2010).
Libraries
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Magner, Denise K. "Academics and Industry Issue Pact to Guide
the Evolution of
Scholarly Publishing," The Chronicle of Higher Education,
June 7, 2000
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Committee on an Information Technology
Strategy for the Library of Congress. LC21: A Digital Strategy for
the Library of Congress. Computer Science and Telecommunications
Board, National Research Council (Washington: National Academy Press,
2001)
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Alonso, Carlos J., et al. "Crises and Opportunities: The Futures of Scholarly Publishing,"
ACLS, Occasional Paper, 57, 2003
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Davis, Philip M. "Tragedy of the Commons
Revisited: Librarians,
Publishers, Faculty and the
Demise of a Public Resource," portal: Libraries and the Academy,
(3.4:2003).
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Kaufman-Wills
Group. The Facts About
Open Access: A Study of the Financial and Non-Financial Effects of Alternative
Business Models for Scholarly Journals, Association of
Learned and Professional Society Publishers, 2005.
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Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Open Access
Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access
Journals, Association of
Research Libraries, Washington, D.C., 2005.
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Our Cultural Commonwealth:
The report of the American Council of Learned Societies'
Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for
Humanities and Social Sciences, 2006.
-
Hazen, Dan.
"Rethinking Research
Library Collections:
A Policy Framework for Straitened
Times, and Beyond,"
LRTS (54:2, 2009).
-
Maloney, Patricia A.
"A Steep Part of the Landscape: Serials, Libraries,
and the Challenges Faced by Higher Education,"
The Serials Librarian (59, 2010).
-
Baveye, Philippe C.
"Sticker Shock and Looming Tsunami: The High Cost of Academic
Serials in Perspective,"
Journal of Scholarly Publishing, (41:2, 2010).
-
Dougan, Kirstin.
"Music to our Eyes: Google Books, Google Scholar, and the Open
Content Alliance,"
portal: Libraries and the Academy (10:1, 2010).
-
Gould, Thomas H.P.
"Scholar as E-Publisher: The Future Role of [Anonymous] Peer
Review within Online Publishing,"
Journal of Scholarly Publishing, (41:4, 2010).
-
Phillips, Angus.
"Blog to the Future?
Journals Publishing in the
Twenty-First Century,"
Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 2010.
-
Krasulski, Michael J. and
Steven J. Bell.
"ACRL's Hall of Fame: An Analysis of Academic/Research Librarian
of the Year Award,"
portal: Libraries and the Academy (10:3, 2010).
-
Bennett, Scott.
"Libraries and Learning: A History of Paradigm Change,"
portal: Libraries and the Academy (9:2, 2009).
-
Greenstein, Daniel.
"Strategies for Sustaining the University
Library,"
portal: Libraries and the Academy (10:2, 2010).
-
Kennedy, Scott.
"Farewell to the Reference Librarian,"
Journal of Library
Administration (51:4, 2011).
-
Lowry, Charles B.
"Year 2 of the 'Great Recession': Surviving the Present by Building the Future,"
Journal of Library Administration (51:1, 2010).
-
Dillon, Dennis.
"Why Libraries Persist: Hermits, Clouds, Confucius, Bubbles,
and Hortense Foglesong,"
Journal of Library Administration (51:1, 2010).
-
Academic Libraries: 2010, First Look.
National Center for Education Statistics, 2011,
-
lombardi, John V.
"In praise of librarians,"
InfoWorld, Reality Check, 10/19/2011.
-
Giesecke, Joan.
"Institutional Repositories: Keys to Success,"
Journal of Library Administration 51:5-6 (2011).
-
Howard, Jennifer.
"Debate at N.Y. Public Library Raises Question: Can Off-Site Storage Work for Researchers?"
The Chronicle of Higher Education April 22, 2012.
Week 6: Faculty Careers
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Fairweather, James S., "Myths and Realities of
Academic Labor Markets," The Economics of Education Review
(14:2, 1995).
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Trends in the Early
Careers of Life Scientists. Committee on Dimensions, Causes,
and Implications of Recent Trends in Careers of Life Scientists,
National Research Council. Washington, D.C., National Academies
Press, 1998
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Bloland, Harland G. "Review Essay: The End(s) of Academic Labor,"
The Review of Higher Education (23:1, 1999).
-
Massy, William and Andrea Wilger. "Why Is Research the Rule? The Impact of
Incentive Systems on Faculty Behavior," Change (March/April 2000).
-
Singer, Maxine, Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists
and Engineers: A Guide for Postdoctoral Scholars, Advisers, Institutions,
Funding Organizations, and Disciplinary Societies
(Washington: National Academy of
Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine,
September 2000).
-
Heller, Scott. "The Lessons of a Lost Career,"
Chronicle of Higher Education, May 26, 2000
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Smallwood, Scott.
"Northwestern Faculty Told to Seek More Research Grants or Risk
Losing Lab Space,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 26, 2001.
-
Anderson, Eugene L.
The New Professoriate: Characteristics, Contributions, and
Compensation,
Washington, DC: American Council on Education, 2002.
Note: This is
a book in pdf format (299kb)courtesy of the American
Council on Education. You will find many chapters of considerable
interest for this course.
-
Slaughter, Sheila, Cynthia Joan Archerd, and Teresa I. D. Campbell.
"Boundaries
and Quandaries: How Professors Negotiate Market Relations,"
The Review of Higher Education (28:1 2004).
-
Fairweather, James S. "Beyond the
Rhetoric: Trends in the Relative Value of Teaching and Research in Faculty
Salaries," Journal of Higher Education (76:4, 2005).
-
Baldwin, Roger G., Christina J. Lunceford, and Kim E. Vanderlinden.
"Faculty in the
Middle Years: Illuminating an Overlooked Phase of Academic Life,"
Review of Higher Education (29:1, 2005).
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Cataldi, E.F., E.M.
Bradburn, and M. Fahimi. National Study
of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:04): Background Characteristics, Work
Activities, and Compensation of Instructional Faculty and Staff: Fall 2003 (NCES
2006-176). U.S. Department
of Education. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics, (2005)
2004. Retrieved [2005] from http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch.
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Millman, Sierra.
"AAUP Reports Higher Pay for Faculty but Sharp Inequalities," Chronicle
of Higher Education, April 12, 2007.
-
Beja, Marc.
"Colleges Use Cheap Loans to Lure Stars to Faculty;
Critics question whether the practice is a wise use of money,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education
September 7, 2009.
-
Leslie, David W.
"The Reshaping of America's Academic Work Force." Research Dialogue
TIAA-CREF institute, Issue #87, March 2007.
-
Wheeler, David L.
"The Coming Wave of Retirements. Colleges Explore
New Ways to Manage Retirements.One
challenge: Faculty members tend to like their jobs a lot." Chronicle of Higher
Education, June 13, 2008.
-
Conley, Valerie Martin. Survey of Changes in
Faculty Retirement Policies 2007,
AAUP, 2008.
-
Conley, Valerie Martin.
"Regenerating the Faculty Workforce:
A Significant Leadership Challenge and a Public Policy Concern,"
TIAA-CREF Institute: Advancing Higher Education, February 2008.
-
Yakoboski, Paul J.
"Do Great Minds Think Alike? Faculty Perspectives on Career and
Retirement. Findings from the 2007 TIAA-CREF Institute Faculty
Generations Survey," TIAA-CREF, 2008.
-
Porter, Stephen R. , Robert K.
Toutkoushian, and John V. Moore III.
"Pay Inequities for Recently Hired Faculty,
1988-2004," The Review of Higher Education, 31:4 (2008)
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Remler, Dahlia K. and
Elda Pema.
"Why do Institutions of Higher Education Reward Research
while Selling Education?" NBER Working Paper 14974
(National Bureau of Economic Research 2009).
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Knapp, Laura G. et. al.
Employees in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2009,
and Salaries of Full-Time Instructional Staff, 2009-10,
National Center for Education Statistics (Washington, DC, 2010).
-
Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-11 Edition:
Teachers-Postsecondary (US Department of Labor, 2010).
-
The PostDoc Journal.
-
Fleming, J. Christopher.
"Faculty Expectations for College Presidents,"
The Journal of Higher Education (81:3, 2010).
-
Foote, Stephanie.
"Amateur Hour Beginning in the Lecture Hall,"
Pedagogy (10:3, 2010).
-
Gillen, Andrew.
"Selling Students Short: Declining Teaching Loads at Colleges and Universities,"
Washington: American Council of Trustees and Alumni and Education Sector, March 2013.
Gender Issues
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Toutkoushian,
Robert K. and Marcia L. Bellas. "Faculty Time Allocations and
Research Productivity: Gender, Race and Family Effects," The
Review of Higher Education 22.4 (1999) 367-390. [Tables and Figures included in PDF.]
-
Armenti, Carmen. "May Babies and Posttenure
Babies: Maternal Decisions
of Women Professors," The Review of Higher Education, (27:2, 2004).
-
Ward, Kelly and Lisa Wolf-Wendel. "Academic Motherhood:
Managing Complex Roles
in Research Universities," The Review of Higher Education
(27:2, 2004).
-
Baer, Michael
A. and Claire Van Ummersen. An Agenda for Excellence: Creating Flexibility in
Tenure-Track Faculty Careers (American Council on Education, 2005).
-
West, Martha and John W. Curtis. AAUP Faculty Gender Equity Indicators 2006.
AAUP 2006.
-
Wolfinger, Nicholas H., Mary Ann Mason, and Marc Goulden.
"Stay in the Game: Gender, Family Formation and
Alternative Trajectories in the Academic Life Course,"
Social Forces (87:3, 2009).
Promotion and Tenure
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American Association of University
Professors. 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom
and Tenure With 1970 Interpretive Comments. Washington, D.C.:
AAUP, 1940,1970.
-
"Post-Tenure Review: An AAUP
Response"
-
Kolodny, Annette. "'60 Minutes' at the University of Arizona:
The Polemic Against Tenure," New Literary History (27:4, 1996)..
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Wilson, Robin. "A Higher Bar for Earning Tenure,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 5, 2001.
-
Independent Report on
Tenure-Related Processes at the University of Colorado," April 24, 2006.
and
Appendicies.
-
Modern Language Association Task Force on Evaluating
Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion, 2006.
-
Clawson, Dan.
"Tenure and the Future
of the University,"
Science (324, 2009).
-
Hudd, Suzanne S.,
Caroline Apgar,
Eric Franklyn Bronson, and
Renée Gravois Lee.
"Creating a Campus Culture of Integrity: Comparing the Perspectives
of Full- and Part-time Faculty,"
The Journal of Higher Education, (80:2, 2009).
-
Vogelgesang, Lori J.,
Nida Denson, and
Uma M. Jayakumar.
"What Determines Faculty-Engaged Scholarship?"
The Review of Higher Education (33:4, 2010).
-
Jaschik, Scott.
"Survey Examines How Senior Historians View Academic Careers,"
Inside Higher Ed December 3, 2012.
-
Wilson, Robin.
"Some Ph.D.'s Choose to Work Off the Grid,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education January 21, 2013.
-
Figlio, David N., Morton O. Schapiro, and Kevin B. Soter.
"Are Tenure Track Professors Better Teachers?"
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 19406,
Cambridge, MA 2013.
Faculty Handbooks
Part-Time Faculty
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"AAUP, Tenure and Teaching-Intensive Appointments," AAUP, 2010.
-
AFT. Academic Staffing Crisis.
-
"Reversing Course.
The Troubled State of Academic Staffing and a Path Forward."
AFT 2008.
-
AFT. American
Academic. The State of the Higher Education Workforce 1997-2007 (AFT 2009).
-
Wilson, Robin.
"The New Faculty Minority: Tenured Professors Fight to Retain Control as Their Numbers Shrink,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education March 18, 2013.
-
Holtz, Thomas R., Jr.
"Non-Tenure Track Faculty Policies and Procedures,"
Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Task Force University of Maryland,
University Senate, Transmittal form, March 6, 2013.
Week 7: Financial Structure of Universities
Tuition and Fees and Student Charges
-
Winston, Gordon C. "College Costs: Subsidies, Intuition,
and Policy," The Williams Project on the Economics of Higher
Education, DP-45, November 1997.
-
Lewis, Ethan G. and Gordon C. Winston. "Subsidies, Costs,
Tuition, and Aid in US Higher Education: 1986-87 to 1993-94,"
The Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education,
DP-41r, April 1997.
-
Brownstein, Andrew. "Upping the Ante for Student Aid,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 16, 2001.
-
Winston, Gordon C. "Is Princeton Acting Like a Church or a Car Dealer?"
The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 23, 2001.
-
Hill, Catharine, Gordon Winston, and Stephanie Boyd. "Affordability: Family Incomes and Net Prices
At Highly Selective Private Colleges and Universities,"
Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education, DP-66r,
January, 2004.
-
ACE Center for
Policy Analysis. Federal Student
Loan Debt: 1993 to 2004. Issue Brief. American
Council on Education, June 2005.
-
St. John, Edward P., Michael B. Paulsen, and Deborah Faye Carter. "Diversity,
College Costs, and Postsecondary Opportunity: An Examination of the Financial
Nexus between College Choice and Persistence for African Americans and Whites,"
The Journal of Higher Education (76:5, 2005).
-
Winston, Gordon C. and Catharine B. Hill.
"Access to the Most Selective Private1 Colleges
by High-Ability, Low-Income Students:
Are they out there?"
Williams Project on the Economics of Higher
Education, DP-69, October, 2005.
-
Martin, Robert E., Randy Campbell, and Michael J. Rizzo. The Cost of Crafting a
Class: (In)Efficient Financial Aid Allocation at Two Private Colleges. American
Institute for Economic Research (Great Barrington, MA., May 2007).
-
Lieber, Ron.
"Why the Cost of College Rises, Even in a Recession,"
The New York Times,
September 5, 2009.
-
"Carolina
Battles Yale for Students Avoiding Obama-Like Debt", Bloomberg, December 5, 2008.
-
Leonhardt, David.
"The (Yes) Low Cost of Higher Ed,"
New York Times, April 20, 2008.
-
"Comparison and Analysis of Financial Aid Pledges.
How Much Would Families Actually Have to Pay?" Project on Student Debt,
Updated January 14, 2008.
-
Psacharopoulos, George.
"Funding Universities for Efficiency and Equity: Research Findings Versus
Petty Politics",
Education Economics (16:3, 2008).
-
Titus, Marvin A.
"The Production of Bachelor's Degrees and Financial Aspects
of State Higher Education Policy: A Dynamic Analysis,"
The Journal of Higher Education, (80:4, 2009).
-
Strach, Patricia.
"Making Higher Education Affordable: Policy Design in Postwar
America,"
Journal of Policy History (21:1, 2009).
-
Tandberg, David.
"Interest Groups and
Governmental Institutions:
The Politics of State Funding of
Public Higher Education,"
Educational Policy (24:5, 2010).
-
Chapman, Lauren and Larry Ludlow.
"Can Downsizing College Class Sizes Augment Student Outcomes?
An Investigation of the Effects of Class Size on Student Learning,"
The Journal of General Education (59:2, 2010).
-
Goode, Joanna.
"Mind the Gap: The Digital Dimension of College Access,"
The Journal of Higher Education (81:5, 2010).
-
Fain, Paul.
"New Web Tool Helps Both Experts and Public Grasp Colleges' Costs,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education,
July 9, 2010.
-
Default Rates: Federal student loans,
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Federal Student Aid, Data Center, 2010.
-
Hillman, Nicholas W.
"Who Benefits from Tuition Discounts at Public Universities?"
Journal of Student Financial Aid (40:1, 2010).
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Trends in College College Pricing,
College Board,
Current years.
-
College Board. Trends in
Student Aid, College Board, current year.
-
Corkery, Michael.
"Colleges Lose Pricing Power,"
The Wall Street Journal January 9, 2013.
-
Thurm, Scott.
"Who Can Still Afford State U? As Public Colleges Spend More and Get Less from the States,
Tuition Costs Are Shifting to Parents and Students--Often Putting Higher Education Out of Reach,"
The Wall Street Journal December 14, 2012.
-
Lederman, Doug.
"Families Used Housing Windfalls to Send Their Kids to Pricer Colleges,"
Inside Higher Ed May 15, 2012.
-
Kiley, Kevin.
"Use of Public Tuition for Financial Aid Likely to Become a Political Issue in Many States,"
Inside Higher Ed November 5, 2012.
-
Biemiller, Lawrence.
"While Tuition Revenue Climbs, Discounts Do Too, Moody's Says,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education January 4, 2012.
-
Simon, Ruth.
"Colleges Cut Prices by Providing More Financial Aid,"
Wall Street Journal 2012.
-
Johnson, Hans.
Defunding Higher Education: What Are the Effects on College Enrollment?
Public Policy Institute of California, 2012.
Revenues, Expenses, and Funding Issues
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Bradburd, Ralph M. and Duncan P. Mann. "Wealth in Higher
Education Institutions," Journal of Higher Education
(64:4, 1993).
-
McPherson, Michael S. and Morton Owen Schapiro.
"Expenditures and Revenues in American Higher Education," The
Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education, DP-27
September 1994.
-
Winston, Gordon C. "Capital and Capital Costs in 2700 US
Colleges and Universities," The Williams Project on the
Economics of Higher Education, DP-33 December
1995.
-
Winston, Gordon C. and Ethan G. Lewis. "Physical Capital
and Capital Service Costs in US Colleges and Universities: 1993,"
The Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education,
DP-35 February 1996.
-
Winston, Gordon C., Jared C. Carbone, and Ethan G. Lewis.
"What's Been Happening to Higher Education? A Reference
Manual 1986-87 to 1994-95," The Williams Project on the
Economics of Higher Education, March 1996.
-
McPherson, Michael S., Morton Owen Shapiro, and Gordon C.
Winston. "The Economic Analogy," The Williams Project on the
Economics of Higher Education, DP-37 June 1996.
-
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Mills, Michael, Pamela Bettis, Janice W. Miller, and Robert Nolan.
"Experiences of Academic Unit
Reorganization: Organizational
Identity and Identification
in Organizational Change,"
The Review of Higher Education (28:4, 2005).
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Capaldi, Elizabeth D.,
John V. Lombardi, and Victor Yellen.
"Improving Graduation Rates: A Simple Method That Works,"
Change, (38:4, 2006).
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Jaschik, Scott.
"Skepticism about Tenure, MOOCs and the Presidency: A Survey of Provosts,"
Inside Higher Ed January 13, 2013.
Week 12: Support Services and Special Units
Land Grant
Medicine
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Focusing on Quality
in a Changing Health Care System.
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Simone, Joseph V.
"Understanding Academic Medical Centers: Simone's Maxims,"
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"Trends in Tenure for Clinical M.D. Faculty in
U.S. Medical Schools: A 25-Year Review,"
Analysis in Brief, AAMC (9:9, 2010)
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"Promotion Rates for First-time Assistant and Associate Professors
Appointed from 1967 to 1997,"
Analysis in Brief, AAMC (9:7, 2010).
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"Projections of Future Medical School Enrollment,"
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Sports
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NCAA: About the NCAA.
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Amato, Louis, John M. Gandar, Irvin B. Tucker
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Anderson, Deborah J.,
John J. Cheslock, and
Ronald G. Ehrenberg.
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Determinants of Title IX Compliance,"
The Journal of Higher Education (77:6 2006).
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Lederman, Doug. "The Admissions Gap for Big-Time Athletes,"
Inside Higher Ed, December 29, 2008.
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Wickwire, Emerson M., Jr., James P. Whelan, Andrew W. Meyers,
Claudia McCausland, Jason Luellen, and Adrienne Studaway.
"Environmental Correlates of Gambling Behavior
Among College Students: A Partial Application of
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Weinstock, Jeremiah and Nancy M. Petry.
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Academic Performance and the BCS, 09/29/2011.
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College Sports and Our Winter of Discontent, 09/21/2011.
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The Amateur Challenge of College Sports, 08/10.
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Taxing the Sports Factory, 10/01.
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Recruiting Student-Athletes, 08/08.
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The Enemy Is Us: Cost Reduction in College Sports, 01/05.
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The Benefit of Many Winners, 02/07.
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Too Much Money? Sports and the Budget, 10/05.
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Preserving the Audience: The NCAA and the APR, 03/05.
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Edwards, Keith E. and Susan R. Jones.
"'Putting My Man Face On': A Grounded
Theory of College Men's Gender Identity
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Journal of College Student Development (50:2, 2009).
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Roy, Donald P., Timothy R. Graeff, and
Susan K. Harmon.
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Division I-A Football Membership,"
Journal of Sport Management, (22, 2008).
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Crouch, J. Brent.
"Gender, Sports, and the Ethics of Teammates: Toward an Outline
of a Philosophy of Sport in the American Grain,"
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Abbey-Pinegar, Erin.
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Issues and Controversies,"
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Edwards, Amanda Ross.
"Why Sport? The Development of Sport as
a Policy Issue in Title IX of the Education
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The Journal of Policy History, (22:3, 2010).
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Gayles, Joy Gaston and Shouping Hu.
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College Outcomes Among Division I Student Athletes,"
The Journal of Higher Education (80:3, 2009).
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Grandzol, Christian, Susan Perlis, and
Lois Draina.
"Leadership Development of Team Captains in Collegiate Varsity
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LaForge, Larry and Janie Hodge.
"NCAA Academic Performance Metrics: Implications for Institutional Policy
and Practice,"
The Journal of Higher Education (82:2, 2011).
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Edmundson, Mark.
"Do Sports Build Character or Damage It?"
Chronicle of Higher Education, January 15, 2012.
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Thompson, Don.
"California Student Athlete Bill Signed into Law, Would Protect Players Who Suffer
Career-Ending Injuries," Associated Press September 27, 2012.
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"They of Little Faith: College Presidents and Big-Time Athletics,"
Green, Casey.
Inside Higher Ed July 30, 2012.
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Hoover, Eric.
"How March Madness Affects Your Applicant Pool,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education August 26, 2012.
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Maatz, Lisa and Fatima Goss Graves.
Title IX at 40: Working to Ensure Gender Equity in Education
Washington: NCWGE, 2012.
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Mike Tierney.
"At a College, Dropping Sports in Favor of Fitness,"
New York Times April 13, 2013.
Fundraising
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Baade, Robert A. and Jeffrey O. Sundberg,
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Cunningham, Brendan M. and
Carlena K. Cochi-Ficano. "The
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AGB-CASE. Illustrative
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Weertsa David J. and Justin M. Roncab.
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Caboni, Timothy C.
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Carlson, Scott.
"Competing Visions for Farmland Set Johns Hopkins against Donor's Family,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education May 27, 2012.
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Katz, Stanley N.
"Beware Big Donors,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education March 25, 2012.
Week 13: Competition, Regulation, and Governance
Research Competition
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Zivney, Terry L. and William J.
Bertin. "Publish or Perish: What the Competition is Really
Doing," Journal of Finance (47:1, 1992).
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Feller, Irwin. "The Determinants of
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35-72.
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Federal Grant and Contract Funding. Tulane University, ca. 1998.
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Goldman, Charles A., Susan M. Gates, and Dominic J. Brewer.
"Prestige or Reputation: Which Is a Sound Investment?"
The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 5, 2001.
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Wilson, Robin. "Ohio State 'Taxes' Departments to
Make a Select Few Top-Notch,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 1, 2001.
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Institute for Research on Higher Education
(IRHE). "Resurveying the Terrain:
Refining the Taxonomy
for the Postsecondary Market,"
Change, March/April 2001.
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Steinberger, Michael. "Harvard Pulls Ahead in Economics Game,"
The New York Times, December 27, 2001.
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Arnone, Michael, The Wannabes,
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Kim, E. Han, Adair Morse, Luigi Zingales. "Are Elite Universities Losing Their
Competitive Edge?" NEBR Working Paper Series, 2006.
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Waltham, Mary.
"The Future of Scholarly Journals Publishing
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Programs. Arlington, Va.: National Science Foundation,
current
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Santiago, Rui, Teresa Carvalho, and Rosário Relva.
"Research and the Universities' Image,"
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Flora, Bethany H. and Joan B. Hirt.
"Educational Consortia in a
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Regulation
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Conformity and Stifle Diversity of Thought and Method," Journal
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Michael L. and Glen A. Jones. "A Comparative Analysis of
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Lombardi and
Capaldi. MUPS--State Support, I-1, 8/1995.
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Capaldi. MUPS--Research Benefits, II-2,
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Michael, Steve O.
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Craig.
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Accreditation
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McMurtrie, Beth. "Assessing the Group
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Foster, Andrea L. "On the Web, It's Easy to Earn Straight A's,"
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Redden, Elizabeth.
"U.S. Accreditors Expand their Activities Overseas,"
Inside Higher Ed April 3, 2013.
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Principles of
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Association of Colleges and Schools, current.
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Higher Learning Commission, North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, Currrent.
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ABET: Accreditation. Baltimore: Accreditation Board for
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CHEA. Recognition
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Student Competition
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Lombardi and Capaldi.
MUPS-Student Quality, II-3, 3/1996.
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Lombardi and Capaldi.
MUPS-Financial Aid, II-4, 4/1996.
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Lombardi and Capaldi.
MUPS—Jobs, II-5, 6/1996.
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Lapovsky, Lucie.
"Phantom Dollars: Findings from 1996 NACUBO Tuition Discounting
Survey," NACUBO Business Officer, March
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Craig. MUPS-
Undergraduates, IV-3, 5/1998.
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Lombardi, "Colleges Shouldn't Be Employment Agencies," The
Chronicle of Higher Education: Point of View, April 16, 1999.
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Brownstein, Andrew. "Ambitious Colleges End the Ivy Lock on
Prestigious Fellowships," The Chronicle of Higher Education,
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Smallwood, Scott.
"Stipends Are Key in Competition to Land Top Graduate Students,"
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Selingo, Jeffrey.
"Mission Creep?"
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Brooks, David. "The Merits of
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Quirk, Matthew. "College 2005:
The Best Class Money Can Buy: The Rise of the 'Enrollment Manager' and the
Cutthroat Quest for Competitive Advantage. The Secret Weapon: Financial-Aid
Leveraging," Atlantic
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Douthat, Ross. "College 2005:
Does Meritocracy Work? Not If Society and Colleges Keep Failing to Distinguish
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Atlantic
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Gladwell, Malcolm. "Getting In: The
Social Logic of Ivy League Admissions," The New Yorker:
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Bollag, Burton. "True to Their
Roots: Catholic Women's Colleges, Appealing To a New Student Population,
Rediscover Their Mission of Serving the Under Served," Chronicle of
Higher Education, March 25, 2005.
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Davies, Scott and
Floyd M. Hammack. "The Channeling of Student Competition in
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England, Paula and Su Li. "Desegregation
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Golden, Daniel. "How Lowering the Bar
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Pennington, Bill.
"The New Gender Divide
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Lewin, Tamar. "The New Gender Divide.
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Applebome, Peter. "The Final Four" [men's colleges], The New York Times,
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"Rebuilding the American Dream Machine; Higher Education and the Poor." (The
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Finder, Alan.
"Aid Lets Smaller Colleges Ask, Why Pay for Ivy League Retail?"
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Long, Bridget Terry. Paying for
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Pascarella, Ernest T., Ty Cruce, Paul D. Umbach, Gregory C. Wolniak, George D.
Kuh, Robert M. Carini, John C. Hayek, Robert M. Gonyea and Chun-Mei Zhao.
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Engle, Jennifer and Vincent Tinto.
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Killgore, Leslie. "Merit and Competition in
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Steinberg, Matthew P., Patrizio Piraino,
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Ness, Erik C.
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Baum, Sandy, Lucie Lapovsky, and Jennifer Ma.
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Inside Higher Ed November 29, 2012.
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Carnevale, Anthony P., Tamara Jayasundera, and Ban Cheah.
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Glazer, Emily and Melissa Korn.
"Forced to Justify their Price, Colleges Hire Marketing Officers,"
The Wall Street Journal August 15, 2012.
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Hoover, Eric.
"George Washington U. Inflated Class-Rank Data for More Than a Decade,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education November 8, 2012.
Governance
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Leslie, David W. "Review Essay: Strategic
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Marcus,
Laurence R. "Restructuring State Higher Education Governance
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[Tables included in PDF.]
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Lowry, Robert C. "Governmental Structure, Trustee Selection, and Public University
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McLendon, Michael K. and Marvin W. Peterson. "The
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Schmidt, Peter. "Weakening the Grip of Multicampus Boards,"
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McLendon,
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(78:6, 2007).
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Lane, Jason E.
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Bray, Nathaniel J. "Proscriptive Norms for Academic Deans:
Comparing Faculty Expectations Across
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McLendon, Michael K.,
James C. Hearn, and
Christine G. Mokher.
"Partisans, Professionals, and Power:
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Skinner, Richard A.
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Kiley, Kevin.
"Dartmouth Investments in Board Members' Firms Raise Questions about Disclosure Requirements,"
Inside Higher Ed June 12, 2012.
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Stripling, Jack.
"Too Many Trustees Can Burden a Board, More Colleges Realize,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education August 13, 2012.
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Kiley, Kevin.
"University of California Faces Questions about Its Governance Structure,"
Inside Higher Ed May 11, 2012.
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Levin, Arthur.
"Today's Unpresidential Presidents,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education October 22, 2012.
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Kiley, Kevin.
"Vermont Group Proposes Making More of Flagship University's Board Private,"
Inside Higher Ed July 25, 2012.
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